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Can African Tech Startups Succeed in a World Dominated by Facebook and Google?

Harvard Business Review

That is the paralysis we are seeing in telecommunications, in e-commerce, and across the broad ICT sector. Taking the advice above could help these startups gain a competitive edge over global companies. African consumers know about the best global products, and local ones are expected to match them on price and quality.

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Corporations Need a Better Approach to Public Policy

Harvard Business Review

telecommunications or food safety or healthcare or aerospace or energy/environment). Their business school education and their initial experience within narrower company functions ( e.g., marketing, manufacturing, finance) may leave them unprepared. They can be cross-cutting issues which impact the whole corporation (e.g.,